How I Spent My Val - Akangbe Oladayo

"I swear if na me ehn, na Tosin I go carry go Rita Lori today"
"Guy calm, I get reason, na Shade I dey carry go flex today"
"Sammy come hear wetin this he-goat dey tell me, ehn say no be that ehn babe wey be like Kim K ehn dey carry go flex today wey be Val"
"Chris!! Shey ò yà wéré? Who u wan come carry go?"
"Na Shade ehn wan carry go"
"Guys see, Tosin go wan dey form meek and gentle, na she fine pass among their two but na Shade go fit drop Puna today. I no fit let anybody dull me today o!!"
"Eeeehn!!! BaDolee!!! Baddest nigga!!!! This guy dey calculate scatter. CHOP KNUCKLE!! CHOP KNUCKLE!!"

That's how I started my day on the 14th day of February 2014. It was mid afternoon when we had this conversation. In about 45 minutes we had gone to withdraw cash from the ATM, had our baths, gotten dressed and were ready to move out. My ride or die niggas Jaiye and Sammy were on hand today. Valentine yì mà rôcký!!

AS PROMISED, TODAY WE BRING YOU, LOVE SEX AND MONEY, A THRILLING TALE OF YOUTHFUL ROMANCE BY THE TALENTED - AKANGBE OLADAYO. PART 2

It was exactly one week from my rendezvous with..........what was that girls name again? Can't remember now. We had done it in the office and she had screamed my name. It felt so good I wanted to ask for more. It was a very unforgettable quickie for me. Best I ever had. But that was one week ago and I had invited Anu over to my house today. I will make sure we have sex today, we've been dating for almost a year now and she was giving me one crappy line about marriage and virtue and virginity. Who cares? Men don't even want to marry virgins again. Or she doesn't know? Aaah she did not "jasi" sef. I just want to help her ni, lemme help her and cut it now so she will be free, she is doing anyhow anyhow. Shiooor. Let her come first. Worst worst, Spanish fly ló má sè isè yén.
I had told her to buy a bucket of grilled chicken and ice cream.
That ice cream is what will make the work faster sef. Just watch daddy Chris work.
I was at the door immediately she knocked. I opened the door to see my pretty girlfriend looking more beautiful than I remembered. Casual clothes, white teeth and a pretty face. I hugged her first then kissed her as I ushered her in.
"I'm pretty famished, where is the food abeg"

LOVE SEX AND MONEY, A THRILLING TALE OF YOUTHFUL ROMANCE BY THE TALENTED - AKANGBE OLADAYO. PART 1

"Jesus Christ!!! Chris!!!! We didn't use a condom!!!!
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I couldn't go out, I couldn't eat, I couldn't think, I couldn't go home. It was like life had ended for me, what am I saying? It has already ended. Hiv positive??? What else is there to live for? My life as I knew it was over. I would never be seen as a normal person. The stigma was unthinkable. I can't eat in public, the shop owner would chase me, the whole school would have known by now. And I was the president, they might even impeach me or something. Chai!!! Just One night o. One single girl. One time. Na so person dey take catch am? But I used a condom now. My mind just kept reeling with questions, what ifs and had I knowns. It was now four days after I heard the news, four days of no food and no contact with the outside world. After the news I came home straight and locked myself in, my phone rang for the first two days from calls and then the battery ran out, no food had entered my mouth not to talk of having my bath. I looked sick and ageing. The Aids was very fast. It was already destroying my immune system. So its Aids that will be the thing that will kill me. Chai!!!
Nobody had come to see me in my house off campus. Maybe they had heard, nobody will ever want to be in contact with me again. I might have to withdraw from school or even defer my admission till all the people I know graduate. Maybe even change my name too. I closed my eyes as tears flowed from my eyes like cascades in a waterfall, my heart  ached as